My wife dropped me off at the staff entrance to the festival. A man got out of the van in front of me with a lunchbox and stopped and turned to wave to his dad. His dad was probably 70, the man was probably around my age and...

I wish I could tell 16 year old me, jamming to I Am Trying to Break Your Heart in his parents’ minivan that 25 years later he’d be in the fantastic city of New Orleans watching Nels Cline play it on a guitar he made right...

Whats this? What. Is. THIS??? This, my spooky friends, is a resonator painted in the “blackest black in the known universe” Black 4.0 by Culture Hustle. 

May your bags be full of full size and none of that...

John Smith playing “River” on his Mavis  merry Muletide! https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2044217...

I was talking with a customer the other day about what tuning and strings he wanted his steel tricone sent out with.   He was planning and keeping it in Eb open D and didn't know what gauge he should use.  Normal stuff.  The...

NAMM. I love it. We don’t have sales guys in bowling shirts saying the same things like they are new things. It’s me and Pops Mule. My dad doesn’t even play guitar. But I brought him to my first NAMM and he loved it too. Last...

The Mule Bus is going to load up and head out to @bourbonandbeyond festival in Louisville middle of September. There’s going to be a Mule player there almost every day with The Killers, The Black Keys, and Bruno Mars. Also…...

25.5” baritone, dirty pink. Enough said.  ...

JEFFREY FOUCAULT - 4 A.M. (RICHARD BUCKNER) from Jeffrey Foucault on Vimeo. ...

The fella next to me is the mighty Colby - the newest member of the Mule Team. And his mom, who valiantly drove him across the country to Michigan. He has been enlisted from the hallowed halls of the Roberto-Venn School of...

Better late than never... Merry Christmas from my family to yours! https://youtu.be/5RWhqrOHR9w Matt...

Why do I make guitars? These ones, specifically.
You. Don't freak out, it's nothing personal. It's just that when you're sitting in a song circle in the Shenandoah Valley and everyone is belting "Paradise" while playing...

“The great psychologist The Big Lebowski said, ‘well that’s just, like, your opinion man,’ You can say that to yourself. You can change your mind. I’ve really been exploring this idea of the observing self in an effort to...

Raffle! Charlie Parr is offering up his woody Mule to benefit Life House of Duluth, a charity that offers unconditional support to homeless youth. This is one of three wooden resonators I’ve made, and in collaboration with...

This past week a friend and I traveled to the barren tundra of Ontario to visit our friend and hand plane-maker extraordinaire Konrad Sauer. Oh, and JL stopped by to pick up his Mulecaster. https://youtu.be/eD7FaZQXCl8...

A bit of a primer on the pieces of these resonator guitars. If you are new to the world of resonators, this will help you get acquainted. The body of a resonator guitar is typically either steel or brass.  My guitars are no...

The moment before something important is said on a morning walk with a new love or an old one. The lift after. The coffee. The pause between casts on a winter steelhead stream. The second glove pulled off, the...

I showed up to the steel Quonset hut reflecting the 118 degree air back hotter yet. 15 yards past the spray booth were piled up junk cars. Surrounding the yard were rusty barbed wire fences too high to climb.  I was 19...

PARR If ever there was a way to kick off 2024 Mules Bus Stops it would be seeing Charlie Parr in Chicago. Tailgate will start around THREE (not two like in the video) and I’m going to the early show at 5 because I’m old and...